We caught up with the action on sixth street, when Justin Truesdell checked his fours.
"Let's see if I'm freerolling," said Allyn Marshall. He peeked at his down cards. "I'm freerolling," he said, and bet. Truesdell made the call.
Truesdell checked seventh street as well and called another bet from Marshall, who revealed a pair of kings. Truesdell spent a while looking accusingly at his cards as though they should have tried harder to be different cards and then mucked.
Marshall - up to 27,000
Truesdell - down to just 3,000
Brandon Cantu is up to 62,000 after winning a nice pot off Dutch Boyd, who has dropped to 23,000 as a result. I arrived at the very end, Cantu showing to Boyd's . Judging by his grimace, Boyd didn't like his card on seventh street, and duly checked before announcing "fours" with a sigh. Cantu took it down with aces.
"Ah man," huffed Boyd. "Gotta build a little house."
Thus came the cry from Phil Ivey (37,000). We rushed over to see what controversy he could have gotten himself into - but all he wanted was to know the basketball score.
The Hard Rock is Team PokerNews' home, why not make it yours. And while you're staying there (or if you're in the neighborhood) stop by the poker room Wednesday night and play in the PokerNews half-kill game. The $4/$8 half-kill game starts Wednesday at 8 p.m. We've had some of the DeucesCracked guys stop by as well as Annette Obrestad, so you never know will stop by. See you there!
Trying to stop Dale Phillips would be like trying to halt a herd of elephants with a pea-shooter. Phillips has now become the first player to exceed that magic 100,000 mark after eliminating short stack Chris Bell.
Chris Bell: /
Dale Phillips: /
Steve Hohn: {mucked}/
Bell was all in by sixth street, but it mattered little, as Phillips took the pot on seventh with a king high flush.